TERESA MATIAS

foto em: 18/04/2014 @ Sociedade Recreativa Artística Farense | Faro

http://www.teresamatias.com


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ABOUT

Teresa Matias is an Amsterdam-based, Algarve, Portugal born flutist and composer.

In 2012 she began writing her own compositions and developing a one-woman-ensemble project where she combines bass blokflute models, live sampling and sound manipulation. Her music is grounded somewhere between classical and ambient genres, in an organic, multi-layered soundscape, delivered by both acoustic and electronic sources.

Last year's highlights include solo performances at Theater de Roode Bioscoop (NL), PNEM Sound Art Festival (NL), Centro Cultural da Malaposta (PT), Salão Brazil (PT) and Centro para os Assuntos das Artes e Arquitectura (PT).

Notable collaborations include organist Gyula Szilagi, kotoist Naoko Kikuchi, cello improviser Audrey Chen, violinist Jellantsje de Vries, composers Nikos Ioakeim and José Luís Ferreira and danser Alexandros Kotsopoulos.

Teresa has performed in venues such as Noordeind Palace (Den Hague), Vredenburg (Utrecht), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa), Culturgest (Lisboa), Muziekgebouw aan t'IJ (Amsterdam) and in festivals such as the "Van Wassenaer Festival" (Amsterdam) and "Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé" (Loulé).

Since 2008 she's the artistic director of the concert series Clássica em Cacela, held every summer in the picturesque village of Cacela Velha, in the Algarve.

Teresa received music lessons since the age of 4, learning the piano and the blokflute (recorder). In 2001 she graduated in Sports Sciences at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and later in Music at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, after which she moved to The Netherlands where she studied the blokflute at Utrechts Conservatorium and then at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. During her music studies she focused on both early and contemporary music as well as on the improvisatory practices of both periods.